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• Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

  Herbert Hoover

  Calm, Patient, Fishes

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• Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivation, Self, Waiting

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.169, Ballantine Books

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• Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you...God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.

  Tessa Dare

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Three Nights with a Scoundrel”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.359

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• Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Loss, Sorrow, Despair

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• Thy peace shall be in much patience.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Patient

  Thomas a Kempis, James Jones (1842). “The Following of Christ...”, p.246

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• Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Opportunity, Use, Helping

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.33, Baker Books

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• Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Purpose, Use, Trials

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.44, Baker Books

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• There is always a prepared place for a prepared person.

  Jack Hyles

  Patient, Prepared, Persons

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• I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

  John Calvin

  Struggle, Effort, Vices

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Imperfection, Mold

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• I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

  Mohammed Omar

  Struggle, Blessed, Healing

  "Mullah Omar Quoted as Saying U.S. Is Doomed", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2002.

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• I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

  Niall Horan

  Princess, Waiting, Patient

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• Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, Criticism, Patient

  "Simon Cowell: From Idol to Inventor". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. February 1, 2006.

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• Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

  John Morton

  Attitude, Self, Challenges

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• You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Hate, Grateful

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Real, Order, Essence

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• Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

  Rumi

  Dark, Dawn, Patient

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• Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Somewhere Else, Live In The Moment

  "Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith".

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• What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.

  Mark Mobius

  Buttons, Panic, Patient

  Mark Mobius (2012). “The Little Book of Emerging Markets: How To Make Money in the World's Fastest Growing Markets”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

  Tiger Woods

  Patient, Distraction, Knows

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• Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.

  Melody Beattie

  Motivational, Moving On, Trust

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.254, Hazelden Publishing

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• I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Writing, Years

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• When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

  Chris Prentiss

  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.19, BookBaby

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• Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Advice, Patient, Birth

  Song: Everybody's Free

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